It’s truly sad how the US worked so hard to destabilize any country that tried to have peaceful relations with Cuba. Manley spent the rest of his political career having to defend his peaceful diplomatic relationship with Cuba. Long love Castro and Manley.
Long live the memory of both these 2 stalwarts of social justice for the poor n the fight for equality of the masses of both countries only 90 miles apart. Viva comrades Micheal n Fidel looong live your memories in the hearts n minds of both your PEOPLES. RASTAFARI .
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@@Miamihgk no love! What destroyed the country was the greediness of Jamaicans who couldn’t sustain themselves without being dependent on the Americans. When manley stood up to america you all cried because America cut the puppet strings. So seaga came to power and gave America all they needed and in turn we all could eat again. Sad! We can only survive under america
They say Singapore emulated Jamaica's political system. They were not close to the US at their time of change. Lee Kuan Yew did what was needed as a US-labeled dictator for that country. Today that country is a shining example of success. Why did America and the CIA had to use terrorism and food embargo to destroy Jamaica for making friend with Cuba? While at the same time they were having diplomatic relationship with Communist China? All Jamaica needed was fair trade.
Weed Is a Plant Because of Russia’s friendship at the time with Cuba. Remember the bay of pigs! What the hell was America doing in Cuba..?!? Fidel had to look to the USSR at that time as an Allie for aid as the embargo put in place starved the Cubans of much. The mighty US frowned upon the involvement of Russian politics and collaboration during the 60s and 70s. By forging a strong connection with JA thru’ Manley, the Americans were concerned that Jamaica like any other Latin American country could stand on its own two feet. Fear is a powerful emotion! Not so mighty was the US then..! Long live Jamaica! Viva Cuba...VIVA!!!
Two of the greatest leaders in the world.. they made changes happen, despite what the rest of the world thinks. This is leadership, I do hope history will “ right” them one day. Hail Manley and Fidel, may their indomitable spirit lives on!
For over 50 years America tried to get rid of Fidel Casro and failed miserably at it.When everything was embargoed ,Fidel taught his people how to survive with what you have,the same cars that were imported as new fifty plus years ago are still running today.Tats when you come to realisze that beign weak is not an option.
Michael " Joshua " Manley legacy still lives on . Michael intended for Jamaicans to be independent and live off our own range of products. " seaga was a agent of cia " If Jamaicans were more knowledgeable about the 2 leaders then there would be no criminals in Jamaica now after 50 yrs . However, we now saw the legacy of Michael " Joshua " Manley visionary the Cuban medical health services visiting Jamaica in time of need. SIP Mr Manley.
The remarkable thing about Cuba is that over the years to this very day, they remember Jamaica's kindness & have been returning the favour so many times over.No strings attached. Can't say that about the bullies further North. Viva la Cuba!
@@timothysimpson1469 what the violence that he, Mcgann, Dudley Thompson and Seaga started? They had opened a can of worm and left innocent Jamaicans still reaping the harvest
@@lornabarrett7808 you are culturally lost.mental capacity dormant .way behind in time with a mind to sell your own birthright to a stone that came in a casket deceiving.the people,that what they see is real.thank God for Micheal Manley who help us to see our self as a people.who. if given the opportunity can achieve our goals reaching the zenith in our achievements
@@jahakarto711 :) :) :) What a response!. I would not used that curse word, but his womanizing was not great. But otherwise, I am so glad i came up when he was Prime Minister. Right now his picture is hanging on my wall in my office. Greates leader, by far, Jamaica ever and will ever produce.
We would be living in a 1959 time warp and joining lines to buy rationed goods. Do you live right now in one of these potential socialist paradises, dummy?
@@kwikky22....blessings flow.....you are being nice to Mr. Brown, however, i applaud you for that, UP UP 100%. I shall not be that nice to Mr. Brown, and i am going to give some time for him to see this, and for him to get prepared. If you are from Jamaica, beloved, i do apologise to you in advance, because i must use Jamaica unfortunately, to shut him up, providing Mr. Brown also, is from Jamaica. I shall only be speaking, FACTS.......i shall await your response before i give it to Mr. Brown.
Manley never abandoned Castro and loved the idea of demo socialism as practiced in Cuba and went against the power of the United States so upsetting them that they placed sanctions and destabilizing Jamaica with debt that remains till this day .
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These leaders were sabotaged because of the selfishness.Same today.Those who support progressive ideas are seen as dangerous. Some people just need a little push a little head wind as it were to help them on their way.I love Manley I believe he had a good heart. Even in the great USA people are suffering because of selfishness and systematic racism. Whether you like Manley or not he is one of the greatest minds of the Caribbean and the world.
the arab-israeli war messed up JA's economy terribly during those times of Manley being in power..JA never recovered..it was very tough for Michael Manley and JA back then
Michael Manley was the only leader who had a vision for Jamaica. I didn’t belong to any party I was a child in their time but I saw his leaders and grew up to understand it.
I love this documentary. Viva! Cuba!, Viva! Jamaica!, Viva! la Revolucion!, Viva! La Hermandad, Viva La Libertad, Viva! El Socialismo Viva! El Comandante Presidente Fidel Castro y Prime Minister Michael Mandley. RIP to you two for you surely missed but your legacy, wisdom, knowledge, and understandings live on in me and others today. True Legends who were conquered by none. Bless up! Most High Elohim will be with you two, Shalom!
Yes I, what an awesome historical moment. Manley and Castro, incomparable in their insights and leadership. Only if they were left alone to develop, world, especially the Caribbean would be a different place
@@WrayRay45 how was he the greatest economists in our time , infact was he an economists , take in consideration that during his 1st administration from 1972 -1980 the Jamaican economy declined by 17 percent , with such a record , who would consider him great
These was the days when respect & discipline rule our two nations ..Jamaican now gun money & geeed since the CIA stage in our elections 1980.... this was the man who thought me the values of been educated
The good days all are pass. Now we must pray for better 🙏🙏😇❣️🌞🙏 days yet 🙏😇🙏. It will be we must work to build the best of tomorrow. Let us all pray for our Leaders to be kind hearted through God Almighty. Amen am praying for all of us
Anyone remember butter oil which came from cuba ....it gave the meat or anything that was fried in it a unique flavour..... no doubt it would send your cholesterol levels through the roof.. but it tasted divine
Fidel the more compelling speaker, Michael thinner, showing the stresses of the socialist enterprise, a decent rhetorical display by both men. For the next few years the enterprise seemed unstoppable; Nicaragua 1978, Grenada 1979 and they said, Jamaican next, but then came Seaga, then came Reagan, followed by the worldwide retreat from socialism that promised so much and delivered so little.
Nice story bro...they were undermined from day 1, from uncle toms within Jamaica, the us, etc...Jamaica didn’t get a chance. Look at the fuckery going on in the island right now!?
@@bertobertoberto3 The socialists always blame others for the failure of their unworkable system and so they never learn and are condemned to repeat their mistakes. There is not one socialist country in the top 25 nations with the highest standard of living and maybe not in the top 50. The basis of high living standards is efficient production and distribution and socialism is a failure at both for reasons of lack of competition, concentration of risk, misallocation of resources and government enablement of the idle, the incompetent and the corrupt. The market economies succeed through fair competition, diffusion of risk, optimal allocation of resources and effective sanctions against the idle, the incompetent and the corrupt. Can you understand what I wrote or are you going to seek some easy escape like the one you offered. If you are not a thinking person, you are forced to take the easy foolishness you mentioned.
@@orvillebrown7235 you're confused on so many levels here, but I've got one word for you: China. Your argument about there not being one socialist (and I guess by extension communist) country in the top 25 is proven False. Also Singapore, Japan and France are basically socialist! Now Spain is considering giving their citizens UBI, that's even more socialist than China! The US is giving hand-outs to it's citizens, isn't that socialist? Just glossing at headline numbers and these bogus reports is a terrible way to draw conclusions. You should think more about the sources of your information. There's a saying that goes something like this: "Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
@@bertobertoberto3 You show your ignorance by the list of countries you describe as socialist , so let us define it. With accurate definition there can be no confusion, without it, we can argue at cross purposes all day. Let me offer you the one given by Jamaican statesman, Norman Manley, " It is the belief that the means of production should in one form or another, come to be publicly owned and controlled." I find that definition pretty clear and simple and devoid of the usual socialist claptrap about dictatorship of the proletariat etc. By that definition, none of the countries you described as socialist fit. If you think that relief for the Chinese plague is socialist, you are more stupid than I thought and I am wasting my time talking with a complete idiot!
@@orvillebrown7235 LOL you're the ignorant idiot here. Socialism is a general idea dude, not some mathematical formulation/definition that you cherry-picked! look no further than how different are the Chinese vs Russian vs. Vietnamese version socialism. Chinese companies are not government controlled. They have to follow rules just like any American company doing business in the US, but they're controlled by shareholders. The feds in the US pretty much owned the banks they bailed out and are continuing to bailout and these banks pretty much control the means of production. It's easier to see this in the Japanese case. Japanese companies are organized in what's called a Zaibatsu basically a clique where every company has a main backing bank...better yet go look it up and get educated because you have no idea what's going on...not only that they had a one party rule for over 50 years! They're just democratic in name. UBI/government handouts is a major characteristic of socialism, I see you've conveniently ignored that.
Michael Manley was indeed a visionary but I do not believe that he was a great strategist. He could have accomplished a whole lot more and remain in power for a much longer period of time had he paced himself. Anyway, I guess that he was constrained by the 5 year election cycles and the political and economic behemoth to the north.
Jaha Karto i am no authority on Manley as i was a child during his tenure. However, its quite clear that he pursued many social reform programmes all at the same time. However he did not put the same effort into attracting capital to expand the tax base.
Thats true. But conditions for 95% of Jamaicans were so bad when he came to power, he believed he could fix it in a short time. Mr White in Jamaica was adamant that no kid from the ghetto was going to sit in class beside junior white at Jamaica College, or Campion or Immaculate of Holy Childhood. So they, along with Seaga and his hench men, decided that if you black, step back, if you brown, stick around, and cause we white, we a keep it tight. Manley who is white, pushed back at them, and so they took their flight. Today blackJamaicans live a Norbrook and beverley Hills. Prior to Michael, you better be a helper or a gardner to go up there. Unnuh tek things fi granted, thats why the Chinese and Indian a push unnuh back to the past
LiverMore Thompson i respect your views. Who will be the transformational black leader that will pull all people of African ancestry together? I see that some good strong leaders have emerged in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. My concern is that we are focussed on catching up with white people’s consumption patterns (houses, cars and electronic gadgets) but we are not strong aspirants for: - strong and robust systems of public and private governance. - leading in science and technology for our benefit. We like to work for Bell, GE, Shell and others but we will not put our talents together and develop and own intellectual property. - become self sufficient in food with enough to aid other nations. - we voted for China to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council and not one of our own. We need an AU representative as a permanent member. - where is our space program. The latest big debate in this country is about whether a child should be able to attend school wearing loc. Thats the type of issue that keeps some professors yapping for months while our grand kids are being prepared to be the slaves of future world powers through our omission.
@@independentc4348 It is sad, but the world that the Devil is incharge of now, will not allow strong, black, peaceful, loving leaders with a sense of achievement to survive. The black leader will always be seen as a threat, and so it is up to each individual to take a stand, and then we will have a community of strong people taking stands, and the community mushroom into a country and a country to a continent. Do not belive the US or Europe will stand by and allow Africa to become industrialize. The same game is being played, albeit different players
Why Michael Manley never embraced Cuba in 1989 to his end ....?? Did he turned back on Castro in 89 .... to his end? Was their two Michael Manley in terms of policy? Free education then increases the cess on education when he returned to power!!!
The Jamaica labor party along with the United States government mess up our beautiful country upon this present day america is so downpressing against countries who doesn’t want to relied on them but ourselves, much love to Fidel Castro and Michael Manley, the platform as set for an endless friendship between Jamaica and Cuba
Michael Manley was not a good leader..he was.the only leader in the world who administered 8 consecutive years of negative growth..devaluation of the dollar..high crime rate..he was a dismal failure. So was Castro..thats why Che abandoned him and went back to Bolivia..later Manley also abandoned him and went to Washington
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your democracy in jamaica 🇯🇲 lead to the high cost of living there today while merchants continue to enjoy our country. They go as far as to fenced off beaches and social venues that ordinary people enjoyed. Mr Manley promote self reliance and deliver with the distribution of land, training young and old in the field suitable for their development. these reports are still usa 🇺🇸 bias towards a party they created promote with money and ammunition and artificial investments.
Every Friday me get me bag a milk powder and bulgur, to take home, and you'll get your free length of khaki for your back to school uniform, God bless Socialism. And may these two men soul rest in peace, ALUTA CONTINUA.✊✊
“Long live incomparable Fidel Castro” and long did he live. Fidel Castro and Michael Manley are nonpareil-may contributions and legacies endure forever.
This man was playing with fire and jamaica got burnt . Castro did and they are still paying for it to this day . The seventies was by far the worst period in jamaica history, yep you can argue some strides were Made but it could have been done a lot easier on the economy and most importantly the lowest class people
You really think that's why JA is like this? LMAO, you never heard of IMF? America? Maybe if JA had followed Cuba's example, they would not be in massive amounts of debit to USA and the IMF. JA can't even spend money on education, health services and jobs because it's too busy paying back the IMF.
Let's not forget the MASS MIGRATION out of Jamaica (during the manley era) of many members of the middle class in the late 70's, out of fear that Jamaica would become communist/or controlled by Cuba. My family was one of many who did so. I see people posting on here that they love socialism/communism....what is there to love about such an oppressive type of government?......How many of you have lived in Cuba or even had a conversation with a Cuban person, who lived or lives in Cuba? Why have so many left Cuba, and continue to jump on boats weekly to Miami even now? Why has Cuban society not even evolved into modern times? Think about that for a minute!
@@djgavint what are you implying the same statement applies to America America don't even own America anymore but cubans owns Cuba . Every country in the world has been stolen from its people buy the fucking Zionist pigs through the word bank IMF and the multinationals it seems to me you have no knowledge of the corruption taking place in the world in the name of democracy please leave this platform and educate yourself.
gerald6919 Because of America we are in debt and suffering from the guns americia sent there. You are obviously still of the plantation mentality which is part of the the demise of a landless people in their own country.
gerald6919 if it wasn’t for michael Manley we would still be feeding on salt fish and salt mackerel, living in board house without electricity and flush toilet..what you talking about...I’m a Labourite and I say that the first automatic rifles I saw in gun man hand was M16 from USA not Cuba or Russia so no way I can agree with you Gerald, with all due respect..
Now that we've grown to become adults (with many of us living in industrialized foreign countries), looking back in retrospect, and now that we are more sensible in using our brains, it is now clear to us that Michael Manley or Joshua (as he was affectionately called) was responsible for the beginning of the mashing-up of Jamaica. He started the economic destruction, then PJ Patterson etal (including the JLP) finished the job.... And now, Jamaica has become a shit hole where we are unable to exist without largess from foreign entities.... Big-up the Chinese for their support in squandering huge amounts of funds on a bullshit country such as ours!!!
Poor thing, go & try to overstand your history & dont talk on things you don't about Micheal Manley, this man wanted everyone in Jamaica to be educated & fight for social justice & was big on farming (grow what we eat & eat what we grow) & he was a evil, but I know of ppl like you that they have brainwash, I feel sorry for you cause i know your dunce in your thinking you just show me that.
@@waynewayne7957 so because I don't support your police views in dunce? Well well well lol you sound like a typical pnp,your party really believe in brainwashing yes,poor you! I could be dunce but as my teacher I couldn't learn from some who as an extremely low illiteracy level!!